PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning, B. F. Skinner
13 Sep 2016
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September 8th lecture 1 child development. Refers to age changes in children"s characteristics. They are systematic - there is a plan, a systematic way that these changes take place. These changes build on each other (i. e. A young child when they are starting to crawl - there is a systematic change from when they go from crawling to walking) - it"s successive. Developmental psychology is the discipline that focuses on these age changes. Obesity as an example - look at the physical, behavioural (bullying), genetic factors. Learning how to be a good parent. Psychodynamic (freud: first major theory in child development, unconscious mental forces, early childhood experiences, role of the unconscious, psychodynamic perspective: inadequacy of evidence, lack of testability, sexism. Ecological (bronfenbrenner: bronfenbrenner, focuses on the environment in which the child develops, microsystem - smallest circle; specific setting with specific participants (parent and child relationship, parent and sibling relationship - family unit, mesosystem - relationship between these.
